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you know when you accidentally cat a binary file and despite your lightning-quick ctrl-c reflexes, something in it triggers that old vt100 command that tells your terminal emulator to shoot a spring-loaded boxing glove directly into your face

mhoye

@jk why do we still even have that feature

@mhoye @jk Ironclad commitment to backwards compatibility?

@aburka @mhoye @jk you never know, somewhere in a nuclear power station control room there might be a critical piece of software relying on boxing glove to the face as a safety feature